I hate this trend that startup homepages seem to be going through. They don't seem to actually explain what their product is. All I can see from this page are a load of assertions that either:
A) It's not the same as thing X
B) It's better than thing Y, because of Z
C) Their Q (which is part of their product) is really really good!
To someone landing on the page, that doesn't tell me what they do on a grander, more abstract scale, it only gives me a pinhole view of parts of their app, and thus prevents me from seeing the bigger picture. I'm sure the product as a whole is great (after all, I know each part is great), but I still have no idea what the product as a whole does!
I've read the FAQ, and I still can't quite figure out what this is offering. Can anyone condense this into a single paragraph (or better, sentence) that describes concisely, and completely what prismic does? I really can't fathom it from their website...
We're working on a different website for explaining the approach of the product.
Do you think that the following fails at explaining the idea of the product?
prismic.io is a different approach to content management.
It features a Writing Room for content writers to author and manage content,
and a Content Query Api for developers to integrate managed content into any website or app.
The paragraph you've posted there is very helpful - it gives me more of an idea of what the product as a whole does, and it does sound really quite interesting!
Even doing something like including that at the top of the current website would work wonders for giving an explanation before delving into finer details.
I think it's a bit like Wordpress. But instead of showing content on web pages like Wordpress does, Prismic exposes content via API's. So you create and manage your content hierarchy, and then developers access it from a mobile app or website via the API.
A) It's not the same as thing X B) It's better than thing Y, because of Z C) Their Q (which is part of their product) is really really good!
To someone landing on the page, that doesn't tell me what they do on a grander, more abstract scale, it only gives me a pinhole view of parts of their app, and thus prevents me from seeing the bigger picture. I'm sure the product as a whole is great (after all, I know each part is great), but I still have no idea what the product as a whole does!
I've read the FAQ, and I still can't quite figure out what this is offering. Can anyone condense this into a single paragraph (or better, sentence) that describes concisely, and completely what prismic does? I really can't fathom it from their website...